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.iedical marijuana helps patients with opioid addiction-CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/29/health/medical-marijuana-opioids/in. <br /> Health + Live TV U.S. Edition + <br /> By 2012, she was taking up to 25 pills a day. She weighed close to 350 pounds, and she didn't want to <br /> move, because the medications sapped whatever will or desire she had. "I can't do this anymore. It is killing <br /> me from the inside out," she told her doctors. <br /> And so she stopped cold turkey. <br /> The withdrawal symptoms were severe. Slinker said <br /> she was moody and irritable from the pounding <br /> • -,Airf, WIRM headaches and constant nausea. Without any <br /> „ medications, her hands began to spasm and freeze. <br /> • au <br /> ** g Her then 22 year-old son suggested cannabis. The <br /> • •r i•-� m relief was quick. "I realized immediately that there are <br /> 4....h - medicinal properties within cannabis," she said. <br /> `� • � ,...► It didn't completely eliminate her pain, but pot allowed <br /> her to live again, she says. She was able to play with <br /> her granddaughter and participate in life. "I'm never <br /> Related Article: Marijuana legalization going to be pain-free, ever. But cannabis has given me <br /> a reason to live," Slinker said. <br /> could help offset opioid epidemic, studies <br /> find But it is also illegal in her home state of Indiana. "I <br /> could have bought cannabis off the street. But that was <br /> not me. I wanted to do it the right way. I wanted to do it <br /> legally," she said. So in July 2012, Slinker moved to <br /> Maine. <br /> Treating patients with weed <br /> Medical marijuana has been legal in Maine since 1999. The state has one of the top ten highest rates of <br /> opioid overdose in the country. In 2016, the rate of overdoses from opioid drugs in Maine was nearly double <br /> the national rate.The number of heroin related deaths has jumped more than fourfold since 2012. <br /> f 5 5/1/2018_ 1:25 PTV <br />